Quotes About Adversity

I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our back, and Lockwood standing in between them, calm and unafraid.

Let's have the baddish one first,' George said. 'I prefer my misery to come at me in stages, so I can acclimatize on the way.

If she'd repeatedly fallen over while crossing soft ground, you could have sewn a crop of beans in the chin-holes she left behind.

What kind of life was it, to sit dumbly in the dark, in living fear of death? Better to go out and face it, head-on.

She raised her hands to wipe her face - and discovered she could not do so. Bonds bit her wrists. Chains jangled. Her arms were painfully constrained. Clearly another great day was about to begin.

Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit rock bottom anyway," George said. "It can't really get much worse.

One eye was black and closed. I allowed myself a smile. Despite my predicament, there were still a few things left in life to enjoy.

a minute!" I felt that queasy sensation in my stomach that you always get when they dismiss you. Like someone sucking out your insides through your back. They have to say it three times to get rid of you, if you're keen on sticking around. Usually you're not. But this time I remained where I was, two glowing eyes in an angry fug of boiling smoke. "Do you know what you are asking

In principle, there's nothing shameful about struggling when a building falls upon you. I've had such problems before. It's part of the job description.

But death, in the end, had not come. Bartimeaus had instead.

The odds were stacked in his enemy's favour. But that was the way it should be. He would succeed or die trying.

That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the last few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me. Djin, magicians, humans, it made no difference. I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke was joining in too. When all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.

Did he do anything bad to you?" "Apart from knock me senseless, clap me in chains, and bring me to Milton Keynes? No.

That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!

Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose.

We are a fine party of heroes. Half drowned, half frozen, half dead with tiredness and sick to our stomachs through drinking half the ocean. Not to mention that all our supplies are feeding the fish.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

These times are so hard, are they're getting even harder. ~ Eminem

We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.